And we see him here still handling foreign affairs, although using the
letterhead of the Secret Cabinet Council as the exhibit shows, reciting
this diplomatic fable with respect to the Austrian situation, a story
also encountered by us in the transcript of the Göring-Ribbentrop
telephone call, all in furtherance of the aims of what we call the
conspiracy.

Now, if the Tribunal please, it might have been fitting and appropriate
for me to present the case on collaboration with Japan and the attack on
the United States on this December 7, 1945, the fourth anniversary of
the attack on Pearl Harbor. However, our plan was to proceed
chronologically so that part of the case must wait its turn for the
presentation next week.

We now come to the climax of this amazing story of wars of aggression,
perhaps one of the most colossal mis-estimates in history, when Hitler's
intuition led him and his associates to launch an aggressive war against
the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

In my last appearance before the Tribunal I presented an account of the
aggression against Czechoslovakia. In the meantime our British
colleagues have given you the evidence covering the formulation of the
plan to attack Poland and the preparations and initiation of actual
aggressive war. In addition they have laid before the Tribunal the story
of the expansion of the war into a general war of aggression involving
the planning and execution of attacks on Denmark, Norway, Belgium and
the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Yugoslavia, Greece; and in doing so the
British Prosecution has marshalled and presented to the Court various
international treaties, agreements, and assurances, and the evidence
establishing the breaching of those treaties and assurances.

I should like to present to the Tribunal now the account of the last
but one of the defendants' acts of aggression, the invasion of the
U.S.S.R. The section of the Indictment in which this crime is charged is
Count One, Section IV (F), Paragraph 6, German invasion on 22 June 1941
of the U.S.S.R. territory in violation of the Non-Aggression Pact of 23
August 1939. The first sentence of this paragraph is the one with which
we shall be concerned today. It reads:

"On 22 June 1941 the Nazi
conspirators deceitfully denounced the Non-Aggression Pact between
Germany and the U.S.S.R. and without any declaration of war invaded
Soviet territory thereby beginning a war of aggression against the
U.S.S.R."

The documents
having a bearing on this phase of the case are contained in document
book marked "P," which we now hand to the Court.